Glass House by Philip Johnson, ,,, , A Complete Walkthrough

The Glass House, or Johnson house, is a historic house museum on Ponus Ridge Road in New Canaan, Connecticut builtin 194849. It was designed by architect Philip Johnson as his residence. It has been called his signature work The Glass House has been universally viewed as having been derived from the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe according to Alice T. Friedman, though the Farnsworth House was not completed until 1951, two years after the Glass House. Johnson curated an exhibit of Mies van der Rohe work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1947, featuring a model of the glass Farnsworth It was an important and influential project for Johnson and modern architecture. The building is an example of minimal structure, geometry, proportion, and the effects of transparency and reflection. The estate includes other buildings designed by Johnson that span his career. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997. Its now owned by the National